{"id":4110,"date":"2014-03-28T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2014-03-28T21:01:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T04:01:13","slug":"new-lcd-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=4110","title":{"rendered":"New LCD Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to Alphatronics today and Chuck the owner asked me to take a look at an LCD 16&#215;2 display he got.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-16x2Display.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4111\" alt=\"LCD-16x2Display\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-16x2Display.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-16x2Display.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-16x2Display-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Weird that the pins are on the side rather than top in one row.<\/p>\n<p>He sent me a datasheet that may be what the device is. \u00a0Not sure of the source so I don&#8217;t think I can post it here.<\/p>\n<p>But here are some important points, seems to be 5 volts and the pins on the left are such.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-PINs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4112\" alt=\"LCD-PINs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-PINs.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-PINs.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-PINs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seems standard to most LCDs I have seen before.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the right which is the backlight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-Backlight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4113\" alt=\"LCD-Backlight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-Backlight.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-Backlight.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LCD-Backlight-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Will give it a try tonight, need to do some soldering though.<\/p>\n<p>Just doing pushups and situps, looks like I am losing, hope to do a 5k tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Weight: 302.4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to Alphatronics today and Chuck the owner asked me to take a look at an LCD 16&#215;2 display he got. &nbsp; Weird that the pins are on the side rather than top in one row. He sent me a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=4110\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14,11,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino","category-new-toys","category-technical","category-training","category-weighin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}